Fußach

Fußach
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Vorarlberg
Political District :	Bregenz
License plate :	B.
Surface:	11.89 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 29 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '42 "  N , 9 ° 39' 50"  E
Height :	398  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,911 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	329 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6972
Area code :	05578
Community code :	8 02 13
Address of the municipal administration:	Baumgarten 2 6972 Fußach
Website:	www.fussach.at
politics
Mayor :	Ernst Blum ( FPÖ )
Local council : (2015) (24 members)	13 10 1 13 10 1  A total of 24 seats FPÖ : 13 ÖVP : 10 GREEN : 1
Location of Fußach in the Bregenz district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hörnlibad at the port entrance

Fußach is a municipality in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg ( Bregenz district ) with 3911 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Fußach is located on the southern shore of Lake Constance at an altitude of 398 meters. Together with the municipalities of Gaißau and Höchst , the village lies within the Rhine delta . The name Fußach probably comes from the former name of Fussach for the river that now flows into Lake Constance as the Dornbirner Ach bei Hard. Before the so-called Fußacher breakthrough in the course of the Rhine regulation in 1900, this flowed into Lake Constance near Fußach, where it separated the town from Hofsteig .

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Fußach borders on four other Vorarlberg municipalities, three of which, like Fußach, are in the Bregenz district and one - namely the market town of Lustenau - is in the adjoining Dornbirn district . The three neighboring municipalities of the Bregenz district are the market municipality of Hard , the municipality of Lauterach and the municipality of Höchst . In contrast to the other two Vorarlberg Rhine delta communities , Fußach does not border on Switzerland by land (but according to the heap theory it borders on Lake Constance).

history

The name Fußach is mentioned for the first time in 840 as Fossonas (tax register of the Pfäffers monastery). The village, named Villa Fozzaha in a document in 1090 , had its first heyday in the Middle Ages.

At that time, Fußach was one of the most important trading centers in the Lake Constance area. As early as the 11th century, shipmen and carters from Fozzaha or Fuozza , as the name was also spelled, were in the service of various counts, princes and monasteries in southern Germany.

As early as the 15th century, the transport of goods and travelers between Lindau and Milan was in the hands of the messenger agency Spehler & Vis (Weiss). This was based in Fußach and the Gebrüder Weiss shipping company emerged from it in 1823 . Originally, riders took care of the mail, later goods and finally passengers were also transported.

The Zulg , the warehouse for the handling of goods, which was built in 1795 in place of the earlier wooden hall, is a reminder of the heyday of transport in Fußach .

The most famous passenger was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . He started the way back from his first trip to Italy with the Milanese messenger and spent the night on Monday, June 12, 1788, in the Gasthaus Krone in Fußach, next to the church. The heyday of the community came to an end around 1850. The construction of the Bregenz harbor, but above all the Lindau – Bludenz railway line and the completion of the Arlberg Railway in 1884, set Fußach back economically. Agriculture and fishing were now the main sources of income.

Only the "castle hill" reminds of the castle at Fußach. In 1390 Count Rudolf, the last of the family from Montfort-Feldkirch , died in this castle. He had previously ceded his property to the Habsburgs , i.e. to Austria. A Vogt managed the castle on behalf of the Habsburgs. In the Appenzell War of 1460, the castle was destroyed, rebuilt and completely demolished in 1799. The stones were used to build the Blum house and the Mühlwuhr.

As an independent political municipality, Fußach was created in 1772 with around 400 inhabitants at that time through the division of Höchst. From 1938 to 1945 the three Rhine Valley communities of Fußach, Höchst and Gaißau were forcibly merged to form Rheinau . Immediately after the Second World War, Fußach regained political independence.

The risk of flooding used to be one of the main concerns of the Rhine delta communities. Of the many Rhine floods, the most serious were those in 1817, 1834, 1868, 1888 and 1890. With the creation of the Fußacher Rhine breakthrough in 1900, effective protection against Rhine floods was achieved. This deprived Fußach of the direct connection to Lake Constance, because the Dornbirner Ache, until then the access to the Fußach harbor, was laid in a different bed and led parallel to the new Rhine into Lake Constance. Where the lake used to be 40 meters deep, today alluvial forest is growing and there is a holiday home colony (In der Schanz), which is colloquially known as "Little Venice" , especially since it is inundated when Lake Constance floods around 1999. On June 19 In 2016, 252 houses were evacuated here, and Lake Constance reached the highest level of 5.16 m the night after.

From 1805 to 1814 the place belonged to Bavaria , then again to Austria. From 1938 to 1946, Fußach was merged with the neighboring communities Gaißau and Höchst in the community of Rheinau.

In 1964, the Fußacher shipyard was the scene of the so-called Fußach affair , a prevented ship christening that had supra-regional political effects.

Population development

The proportion of foreigners at the end of 2002 was 14.5 percent.

politics

The community council consists of 24 members. The composition after the 2015 election is: 13 seats for the list of Mayor Ernst Blum and the Free Voting Community , 10 seats for the Fußach People's Party and Independents and 1 seat for the list, of course, Fußach! Greens and non-party . Ernst Blum ( FPÖ ) was elected mayor in the direct election.

The municipal income from taxes and other levies in 2001 was € 1,320,408, the municipal expenditure was € 5,644,591. The debt level in 2001 was € 4,402,987.

Mayor (since 1945)

1945–1950 Eduard Weiß (deployed by the French occupiers)
1950–1955 Dr. Fritz Rohner ( VdU , forerunner of the FPÖ )
1955–1981 Kurt Nagel ( VdU , from 1956 FPÖ )
1981–1993 August Grabher ( FPÖ )
since 1993 Ernst Blum ( FPÖ )

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Fußach

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2003 there were 62 commercial businesses with 327 employees and 25 apprentices on site. There were 1,850 employees subject to wage tax. Agriculture plays an important role. The proportion of agricultural land in the total area is 43.0%. The community is connected to the railway network by the Hard-Fussach stop on the St. Margrethen – Lauterach railway line, which is served by the Vorarlberg S-Bahn .

port

Harbor master Günther Salzmann intends to expand and renovate the Bodensee port at Rohrspitz. Nature conservation organizations have objected to the construction project because the Natura 2000 area would be affected by the construction. The administrative court rejected the complaints against the redesign in December 2019.

education

There is a primary school and two kindergarten locations in Fußach. There are also two playgroups in the community. The largest part of Fußach belongs to the school district of the Mittelweiherburg middle school in Hard, students in the district of Fußach Süd belong to the school district of the middle school in Höchst.

military

A radio direction finder system was put into operation on February 15, 1961 to locate unknown transmitters in the shortwave range . Due to the moisture in the soil near Lake Constance, the soil conductivity for radio waves is particularly favorable, which is why the direction finder was relocated to the remote, mist-free moorland.

Sons and daughters of Fußach

• Josef Rupp (born January 30, 1885 - † July 26, 1962 in Lochau), entrepreneur and politician
• Erich Gerer (born March 23, 1945) sculptor, carved a. a. the largest owl in the world
• Ernst Blum (born March 12, 1957), politician, mayor of the municipality of Fußach and member of the Vorarlberg state parliament
• Augustin Jagg (born November 3, 1960), theater director and founder / artistic director of the KOSMOS theater in Bregenz

Web links

Commons : Fußach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 80213 - Fußach. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ After Werner Vogt 's name to the Latin: . fossa (moat).
2. ↑ “Zusg” is supposed to be borrowed from the Italian language and derived from “Sosta” (calm) (community Schwarzach (ed.)), “ Heimat Schwarzach ”, self-published by the community Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, p. 244.
3. ↑ 250 holiday homes "In der Schanz" evacuated vorarlberg.orf.at, June 20, 2016, accessed June 20, 2016.
4. ^ Vorarlberg Chronicle First free elections since 1929 (accessed on 23 August 2016)
5. ↑ Green light for Salzmann-Hafen am Rohrspitz orf.at, December 18, 2019, accessed December 18, 2019.
6. ↑ Rudolf Lechmann: The development of telegraphy, telephony and transmission systems in the area of ​​the post and telegraph directorate Innsbruck: From the beginnings (approx. 1850) to the eighties of the 20th century. Wagner, Innsbruck 2006, p. 190.